So has the great BP environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico been over-hyped?

Daily Mail
"The environmental damage caused by BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have been grossly exaggerated, a growing body of experts is suggesting.In a bold move, scientists have dismissed the torrent of grim predictions from President Obama and environmentalists as ‘hype’ with no data to back it up.Instead, those working on the ground say the oil is breaking up far more quickly than expected and the number of birds being killed is low.Just days after the Deepwater Horizon leak was capped two weeks ago, coastal grass began to grow back, as did trees which serve as breeding grounds for fish and other wildlife."

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The good oil on “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced” Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun (Australia)
"Within a month of the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I warned that the damage done by spills tended to be wildly exaggerated, and that this one seemed to be no exception. Two months later, Time now agrees: "